Flowers that came to be

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Another weekend is already here! This one came with an open theme for Nail Art Sunday at LeLack. I had a somewhat clear picture of what I wanted to do when I sat down to do this manicure. I wanted to stamp on a saran wrap background and I wanted the background to be rather subtle and then stamped in an "organic" style. The saran wrap when well, I used two of my new Zoyas, Shelby and then Audrina. I put two coats of China Glaze Golden Enchantment on top of this to get a shimmery look. Then started the trouble of finding a stamping plate and a good stamping polish. After much debate I settled for Bundle Monster BM-206 which has a roundish leafy design. The problem was that I just couldn't get it to transfer onto the stamper. The scraping seemed to get all of the polish no matter what polish I used. Finally I switched to plate BM-203 instead and got a complete different look than I had in mind. I added some dots using OPI Goldeneye to the finished result.It is not what I had in mind but I still like it!

This is one coat of Zoya Shelby, since I knew I was covering most of it up I went for the least amount of coats I could get away with. If I had wanted to use it on its own I would have applied a second coat. Shelby is an easily applied Pink Panther-pink that is easy to like and has many dupes and similar polishes.

Polishes used: Zoya Shelby, Zoya Audrina, OPI Goldeneye, China Glaze Golden Enchantment and Konad special polish in blue.I'll also throw in a haul picture since I mentioned I had new Zoya polishes. These are the polishes that I bought when Zoya advertised an Easter special with mini polishes in cute boxes. I can't resist cute packaging but since Zoya doesn't ship to Sweden I had to have them shipped to a good friends address in New York. She was then not allowed to mail them to me by the US Postal Service so I've had to wait quite some time til she could deliver them in person. They are just irresistibly cute!